PIX4597407: Apollo 15: Lunar soil sample - Apollo 15: lunar soil - Container filled with lunar soil brought back by the crew of the Apollo 15 mission. A close - up view of a container full of green - colored lunar soil in the Non - Sterile Nitrogen Processing Line (NNPL) in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC). This sample, broken down into six separate samples after this photo was made, was made up of comprehensive fines from near Spur Crater on the Apennine Front. The numbers assigned to the sample include numbers 15300 through 15305. Astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin took the sample during their second extravehicular activity (EVA) at a ground elapsed time (GET) of 146:05 to 146:06 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4597815: Apollo 17: H. Schmitt on the Moon - Apollo 17: H. Schmitt near Shorty crater - Harrison H. Schmitt working near the lunar jeep at Station 4 (Shorty Crater) during the second extravehicular exit Apollo 17 (EVA - 2). 12/12/1972. A view of the lunarscape at Station 4 (Shorty Crater) showing scientist - astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt working at the lunar roving vehicle (LRV) during the second Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA - 2) at the Taurus - Littrow landing site. This is the area where Schmitt first spotted the orange soil. Orange soil is clearly visible on either side of the rover in this picture. Shorty Crater is to the right. The peak in the center background is Family Mountain. Portion of South Massif is on the horizon at the left edge. 12/12/1972 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4598490: Mission Andromede - Crew Depart - Andromede mission - The Taxi Flight crew prior to launch - Rise the ladder to the Soyuz capsule by the crew of the Andromede mission at the Baikonour launch site at 12.00 pm (local time), in preparation for the launch of the Franco-Russian Andromede mission, this Sunday, October 21 at 14:59 (local time). The Andromede mission took place from 21 to 31 October 2001 on board the ISS (the International Space Station). On October 21 2001 the Soyuz 3 Taxi Flight crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The “” Andromede”” Mission occured from 21 to 31 October 2001, onboard the International Space Station / Bridgeman Images
TEC4597563: The Felix Potin building, 140 rue de Rennes and rue Blaise Desgoffe, Paris 6th arrondissement. Built in 1904, made of reinforced concrete by the architect Paul Auscher (1866-1932), this seven-storey building consists of supply shops and sales to the public (ground floor and floor), offices and housing on floors. The corner turret is crowned with an evide bell tower where you can read the name of Felix Potin. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4597680: Apollo 16: the LEM en approche du module de commande - Apollo 16: LM ascent stage approaching CSM - Le LEM en approche du module de commande d'Apollo 16. 23/04/1972. (23 April 1972) The ascent stage of the Apollo 16 Lunar Module (LM) approaches the Command and Service Modules (CSM) during rendezvous, with a contrasting background of darkness and the Sea of Fertility (Mare Fecundatatis). Taken from the CSM, the photo shows the aft side of the LM during a yaw maneuver. Note the buckled thermal panels. Messier and Messier A (right center) are among the most readily identifiable features on the surface below / Bridgeman Images
PIX4597756: Apollo 17 on its fire pad - Apollo 17 Pre - Launch - Saturn V/Apollo 17 rocket on its fire pad. 12/1972. The Apollo 17 Space Vehicle sits poised beneath a full moon on Launch Pad 39A during launch countdown. Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Commander; Ronald A. Evans, Command Module Pilot; and Dr. Harrison H. Jack Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot, will be the crew for the sixth manned lunar landing mission / Bridgeman Images
PIX4598259: Apollo 17: main site - Apollo 17 lunar landing site - View of the main site of Taurus - Littrow with the LEM. One of the last photos taken during the Apollo mission 17. 11/12/1972. The Lunar Module (LM) is in the background of this view of the Taurus - Littrow landing site. This was one of the last photographs taken on the lunar surface. The Apollo 17 crewmembers were astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, commander; Ronald E. Evans, command and service module pilot; and Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. 11 Dec 1972 / Bridgeman Images
TEC4598269: The Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. Architects Felix Duban (1797-1872) and Francois Debret (1777-1850), reconstructions 1816. The building occupies what remains of the convent of the Petites Augustins (17th century) and the hotel de Chimay (1635), to which buildings were assistant in the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images